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declined to comply, suyiuj::: that he knew his duty and had perfoiiued it. lie was lieutenant-gov- ernor of Kentucky, lyO^-li. antl again in lbl6, on the ticket witii tkH)rge Madison for governor. Madison died Oct. 14, iyi6, and Slaugliter was thereupon c.r officio governor for the term of four years ending witii 1819. He died in Mercer county, Ky.. Sept. 10. 1S30.

SLAUGHTER, Philip, clergyman, was born in Spriiiglield, Va., Oct. 2G, 1808; son of Capt. Philip .Sl.iughter, of the lltii Continental regi- ment. Army of the Revolution. He was tiie cousin of William B mk Slaugliter. who organized the state of Wisconsin. Piiilip was educated private- ly and at the academ_v at Wincliester, Va.; studied law at the University of Virginia, 1825- 28. and was admitted to the bar. He entered the Episcopal theological seminary, Alexandria. Va., 1833; was ordained deacon in Trinity clmrch, Staunton. 1834. and priest in St. Paul's church, Alexandria. 1835. He was rector at Dettingen, Va.; ofClirist churcii, Georgetown, D.C., 1836- 40; of the parishes of Meade and Jolins, 1840-43, and St. Paul's church, Petersburg, Va., 1843-48. On account of ill health he spent 1848-49 in foreign travel. In 1856 he erected a church on his own land in Culpeper county, and officiated there without romuneration until the Federal army daslroyed it in 1803. He then preached in liisoA-n lijusa, in camps and hospitals. In 1874 he received the degree of D.D. from William and Mary college. The church convention made him historiographer of the diocese of Virginia. He eJited The Virginia Colonizationist (1850); The Army and Xa vy Messenger; The Southern Church- man (lS6")),and is the author of: St. Georges Parish History (1847); Man and Woman (1860); Life of Randolph Fairfax (1862); Life of Colonel Joshua Fry (1880); Historic Churches of Vir- ginia {\SS2); Life of Hon. William Green {18SP,); Views from Cedar Mountains (ISSi); The Colonial Church of Virginia (1885); Christianity the Key to t!ie Character and Career of Washington (1883); and an Address to the Minute-Men of Culpzper (1887). He died in Culpeper county, Va.. .Tunf- 12. 1890.

SLAYDEN, James Luther, representative, was hoiti in Graves county, Ky., June 1, 1853; son of Thomas A. and Letitia E. Slayden. He was educated in the public schools of Kentucky, and at the Washington and Lee university, Va., 1873-73. He became a cotton merchant, and was a representative in the legislature of Texas in 1892. He declined re-election, and served as a Democratic representative from the twelfth dis- trict of Texas in the 55tii, 56lli. 57th and 58tli congresses. 1897-1905.

SLEIGHT, Mary Brack, author, was born in New York city; daugliter of Henry C. and Jane

(Keese) Sleight, granddaughter of Henry and Mary (Remsen)Sleight; and of John D. and Catiia- rine (Kip) Keese, and great-granddaughter of Maj. John Keese, an officer on Wasliington's staff and a charter member of the Society of the Cin- cinnati. Her grandfather, Henry Sleight, attained the rank of colonel in the Continental army. On her mother's side she comes of Quaker an- cestrj-^ — tiie Bownes of Flushing and the Keeses of Keesville — and the family was connected by marriage with the families of Wa-ihington Irving and J. Fenimore Cooper. Her fatlier, Henry C. Sleiglit, a soldier in the war of 1812 was a New York publisher; founder of the first daily news- paper west of Albany — the Rochester Daily Advertiser. His publishing house in New York city was burned in the great fire of 1835. In 1844 he removed with his family to Geneseo, 111., and Miss Sleight was educated in the Geneseo sem- inary. After 1875 she made her home in Sag Harbor, L.I., N.Y. Slie is the author of: Prairie Days (1879); Osego Chronicles (1879); Pulpit and Easel (1885); House at Crague (1886); Flagon the Mill (1887); The Knights of Sandy Hollow (1890); An Island Heroine (1898).

SLEMMER, Adam Jacoby, soldier, was born in Montgomery county, Pa., in 1828. He was graduated from the U.S. Militarj' academy, in 1850; was assigned to the 1st U.S. artillery; served in tiie Seminole Indian war, 1850-51; was commissioned 2d lieutenant. Feb. 22, 1851, and served on frontier and garrison duty, 1851-54. He was promoted 1st lieutenant April 30, 1854; was assistant professor of geography, history and ethics at the U.S. Military academy, 1855-56; assistant professor of mathematics, 1856-59; served in garrison with the 1st artillery, Capt. Abner Doubleday, at Fort Moultrie, S.C, 1859-60:

and was transferred to Barrancas Barracks, Fla., 1800-61, where he coiiimamled Company G, 1st U.S. artillery, the only Federal force to protect the U.S. forts and navy yard in Pensjicola Bay in January, 1861, and on Jan. 10, 1861, he removed his command from Fort Barrancas to Fort Pickens, which he refused to surrender to the